Paul Stanley Live in Newcastle
I grew up listenening to KISS. I've got photo's of me somewhere as a three year old with Starchild make up on all rocking and cute (yes at one point in time I was cute). So when I was given a free ticket to go see Paul Stanley's solo tour I thought why not. This was further enhanced once I found out that Stanley's backing band was the awesome band from RockStar. Those guys are some of the finest musicians I have ever seen assembled into a band and they sure didn't disappoint.
In fact, for the most part neither did Stanley. His voice was sounding a little worse for wear, and except for the occasional verbal spewing that kept cropping up "during" songs, he was exceptionally impressive. Even as a guitarist, with an awesome guitarist on stage, I found myself watching the drummer, Nate Morton, more than anything else.
The man is simply amazing. Rock solid but very flashy and stylish. He brought a huge amount of power and drive to every single song. Any band would be lucky to have a drummer half a gifted as Morton.
It has to be said, and Stanley himself mentioned it as soon as he walked on stage, the crowd numbers were awful. Being generous I would say pushing a thousand - tops. But those that were there were given a pretty good show by a great entertainer an and awesome collection of musicians.
